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BY 

WILLARD LIGHT 

4832 ARLINGTON AVENUE 

LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA 

U. S. A. 



AUTHOR OF LIGHT ON THE ROOSEVELT MOVEMENT" AND GETTYSBURG 1863-1913" 



"And thou shall number seven Sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years: and the space of the seven 
Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 

" Then shall thou cause the TRUMPET of the JUBtLEE to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the 
day of ATONEMENT shall ye make the TRUMPET sound throughout all your land."— Leviticus. XXV, 8>9. 



LINCOLN MEMORIAL SOUVENIR 



COPYRIGHT 1914 BY THE AUTHOR 



ET4 

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In Memory of Abraham Lincoln 



Sixteenth President of the United States of America. 
Born, February 12th, 1809. 
Crucified, April 14th, 1865. 



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"A peaceful life; — just toil and rest — 

All his desire; — 
To read the books he liked the best 

Beside the cabin fire — 
God's word and man's; — to peer sometimes 

Above the page, in smouldering gleams, 
And catch, like far heroic rhymes, 

The oh in an]) of his dreams. 

A peaceful life; — to hear the low 
Of pastured herds, 
Or woodman's ax that, blow on blow, 

Fell sweet as rhythmic words. 
And yel there stirred within his breast 
A fateful pulse that, like a roll 
urns, made high above his rest 
A I a in nil lit his soul. 

"A pea» tit i. life! . . . They haled him even 

As Oxe was haled 
Whose open palms were nailed toward Heaven 

When prayers nor aught availed. 
And, lo, he paid the self-same price 

To lull a Nation's awful strife 
And will US, through the sacrifice 

Of Self, HIS PEACEFUL LIFE." 

N iley. 



'Cod is sounding forth a trumpet that shall never call retreat. 



"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, 
is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. 

"You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. 
You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while 
I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it. 

"I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must 

not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break 
the bonds of our affection. 

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and 
patriot grave to every living neart and hearthstone all over this broad 
land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely 
they will be, by the better angels of our nature." First Inaugural, 1861. 



"I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do 
hereby proclaim and declare that: — 

"On the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, oi?3 thousand 
eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, 
the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United Stans. 
shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free! 

"And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, war- 
ranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, / invoke the con- 
siderate judgment of mankind, and the gra< coi s favor of Almighty God. 

Em \m ii'ation Proclamation. 



"Wnii malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the 
right as God gives us to see the right, lei us strive on to finish the work 
we are in; to bind up the Nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have 
borne the battl \ and for bis widow and his orphans; to do all which una 
achieve and cherish a fust and lasting peace among ourselves \\i> with 
all Nations." Second [naugural, 181 

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JAN -2 1915 
©GI.A390920 



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'John Brown's body ties mouldering in the tomb. 
Bit his Son. GOES MABCHING on!" 



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A Trumpet Gall to Men of Golor 



"\ w is old John Brown who broke the rod 
Of Freedom's fallow field, 
And sowed, his heart tin re. thanking God 
Poor slaves would gel the yield; — 

■ Rained his lasl t< a .- for them and us 

To irrigate and till 
A crop of Song as glorious 

\ Rhymes <>f I ronquill. 

"Your wars can riddle bone and flesh, 

Ami blOW "ill brains, and spilt 

Life-blood, bi i Something lives on, fresh 
\ - Rhj mes of [ronquill." 



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The great Stat< of Illinois has appropriated a large sum of money for 
a grand celebration commemorating the Half-Cent nry Anniversary of 
Negro Freedom, to be held during the month of August, 1915, in the city 
of Chicago, where Abraham Lincoln was discovered, and in the city of 
Springfield, where the mortal remains of the Great Emancipator are 
crumbling into silent and sacred dust, while his compassionate soul has put 
on immortality. 



It is eminently fitting and peculiarly proper that the Golden Jubilee 
of Emancipation should be consummated at the time and in the places 
named. 

"And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim Liberty through- 
out all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a Jubilee 
unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall 
return every man unto his family." Leviticus, XXV; 10. 



"John Brown's body lies mouldering in the tomb! 
The stars of heaven are looking kindly down, 
On the grave of old John Brown. 
His phantom knap-sack is strapped upon his back ; 
He's gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! 
His Soul is marching on." 



The First Universal Races Congress ever held on our globe conven u 
in the University of London in July, 1911. Nearly every Race and Nation 
on earth was represented at this momentous meeting. We in America 
have reason to be proud of the fact that this great World Conferem 
dealing with the perplexing problems of Inter-Racial comity, was first pro- 
posed by our distinguished fellow-citizen, Dr. Felix Adler. of Columbia 
University, New York City. 

Untold and incalculable good was accomplished at this First Races 
Congress. A permanent executive council was chosen, and an association 
formed with intent to undertake to hold a similar congress every few 
years. The United States of America had the honor to be represented by 
Dr. Adler, and he is also the American member of the permanent council. 

This eminent professor delivered a most able address at the lasl 
Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependenl 
Peoples, in which he very clearly and concisely outlined The aims, objects 
and scope of the First Races Congress. His splendid speech is publish"! 
in the August-September number of our American Peace Society's Advo- 
cate of Peace, under the most appropriate title of "Justice the Basis of 
International Peace." 

The hopes of this World Parliament of Man briefly stated are: — 

1. To promote a better appreciation on the part of each Nation of 
such types of culture and civilization as differ from its own. and par- 
ticularly to bring about a more perfect understanding between the East 
and the West. 

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2. To encourage the scientific study of the Races and their special 
problems, in order that more harmonious and peaceful relations may be 
maintained between all divisions of mankind, to the end that all Race 
hatred and Creed prejudice may be gradually and finally eliminated. 

3. To promote experiments after the manner of the Batak Institution 
at Leiden, based on the principle that the backward Races, instead of 
being exploited for the benefit of Europeans and Americans, are to be 
assisted in the development of a civilization of their own, in accordance 
with tfieir natural opportunities and capacities. 

1 1 would seem to be in supreme harmony, and perfect accord with 
the divine trend of world-events, for our Government to extend an official 
invitation to the Right Hon. Lord Weardale, President; Hon. Dr. G. Spiller, 
Secretary; the entire Permanent Executive Council, and all other noble 
souls who hold humanity and service above dividends and surplus, to pro- 
ceed with i li<- necessary preliminary preparations for convoking the Sec- 
ond Universal Races Congress, in meel at our Panama-Pacific World's 
Exposition, following our Golden Jubilee of Negro Freedom. 

Ii we ran successfully celebrate a century of peace with Anglo-Saxon 
people in this year of our Lord, 1014, and convene a Universal Congress 
of Races aexl year in the city by our Golden Gate, on the shores of the sun- 
down sea. we will he rapidly approaching the realization and fulfillment 
or the prophecy of the greatesl living Theosophist. 

"In tin- near future another .»•""' Woeld-Tj m hi a will appear, and he 
will be able to gather together in one tin- numberless religions of man- 
kind, to bring together in ><ne the scattered and divided races of mankind, 
to institute an < po< ft of peace on earth and goodwill among men, and i<> 

i si \\\\ [SB \ \ i i:i I uu I i \ \i II i 01 GOD." 

M.\ own vision is that our beloved Republic will be permitted to pro- 
duce this wondi rful World-Teacher, for whom suffering humanity has 
waited so patiently and long, and at our Diamond Jubilee of Negro Free- 
dom we will celebrate the Emancipation of am. Races from axl forms of 
Slavery. 

' I have \ "t many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear thevi 
now. 

"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you 
into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall 
hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come." 

St. John, XVI; 12-13. 

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"The Wobld-Teacheb of the Futube will come to us as comes 
The beauty of the bugle's voice above the roar of drums — 
The beauty of the bugle's voice above the roar and din 
Of battle-drums that pulse the time the victor marches in. 

"His hands will hold no harp, in sooth; his lifted brow will bear 
No coronet of laurel — nay, nor symbol anywhere. 
Save that his palms are brothers to the toiler's at the plow, 
His fare in heaven, and the dew of fluty on his brow." 



A number of people who were deeply interested in the First Race- 
Congress, seeing the vital need of a publication to convey to the reading 
world the mute appeals, and unwritten pleas of the backward peoples, and 
the aims and ambitions, aspirations and hopes of the different divisions 
of mankind, as expressed by the brightest thinkers and best writers among 
them, founded the African Times and Orient Review. 

A monthly magazine, published at 158 Fleet Street, London. E. ('.. 
England; and devoted to the higher interests of the darker races of the 
human family. Subscription price, $1.50 per year, post free to any pari 
of the world. Sample copies at 15 cents each may be obtained from .Mr. 
John E. Bruce, President of the Negro Society for Historical Research, 
Yonkers, New York; also from the author of this brochure. Either .Mr. 
Bruce or myself will cheerfully handle subscriptions, but I earnestly urg< 
all who are in sympathy with this wonderful work, and feel able to sup- 
port it, to personally send their dollar and a half direct to the home 
address of the paper as it is given above. 

The African Times and Orient Review is most ably edited by .Mr. 
Duse Mohamed, Effendi; a pure blood descendant of the Hamitic Race; 
born in Egypt and educated in England. Evidently .Mr. Mohamed has 
undertaken a Herculean task once contemplated by the late lamented .Mr. 
Win. T. Stead, of establishing a globe journal that shall be an open forum 
for the leading thinkers and scholars of the earth, regardless of Race, 
Creed, or Color. A sort of literary clearing-house for the world. 

This highly intelligent Egyptian gentleman writes gracetul and pow- 
er! nl literature in classic and trenchant English, and deserves the (special 
support of every person of Color who wishes to count for something more 
i han a cumberei of God's footstool, and of every Caucasian who really 
believes in the Neighborhood of Nations, the Brotherhood of Humanity, 
and wIki floes inn wish to live to see a Race ami Class war that trill drench 
the i iirth in hlood. 

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It has long been clear to me that if the Wise Men of the ichoie World, 
the Heboes of Arbitration, the Philanthropists who fight the conditions 
that make icar possible, and the Peace Patriots of all Governments among 
men do nol gather around the council table in a spirit of brotherly love, 
and work together in harmony and concord on the perplexing problems 
that vex and harass the Nations to distraction, and tax and burden the 
people beyond endurance, the Armageddon of the Apocalypse will become 
a physical reality, and a material conflict, and not a spiritual struggle 
as it was intended Id be revealed by the Prophet of Patmos. 

It seems to me that Editor Mohamed has caught a glimmer of the 
Golden Dawn now breaking across the vast ocean of Eternity, and lil 
modern Atlas is trying to raise his people; and following in the foots 
ni" Moses, who also came from tht Land of the Pharaohs, is leading them 
out of bondage on and up the intellectual heights to where they may vi< w 
the Promisi d Land of Cana 

I quote from his Decei itorial, "A .Merry Christmas to You 

All ': — 

"We rage unabated, with a heart fin 

endure, with a soul unappalled bj difficulty and toil, with a will, a deter- 
mination, an unshaken resolution to carry through our work, to maintain 
until the end our struggle on behalf of the Coloured Races of the World. 
We shall never cease to < and oppression and wrong, to 

fighl for the weal and helpless, to present the unspoken petition of the 
suffering as long as even a modicum of support and appreciation is forth- 
coming from those whose cause ve maintain, or till the greal Reaper 

us in Hifi 

pecially i xhort all the darker races to rally round the banner 
thai has b( en unfurled by this Prophi i of the Nile. I appeal to all human- 
itarians to support this marvelous man by .subscribing for bis great world 
journal: and furthermore, 1 beg those who may have a little mom 
invest in such missionary work to communicate with Mr. Bruce, or direel 
with Mr. Mohamed in regard to buying stock in the African Tim's and 

Orient Review Co. 

The Review is no id birthday, and it appears to me 

that the people backing it have undertaken the tremendous, and some- 
tim< s thankless task, of serving the lowliest first; and are endeavoring to 
assist those who are in direst need of help. I am asking that they may 
be supplied with the necessary funds to quickly make their monthly mag- 
azine the great medium for good throughout the world it is bound to 
eventually become. I am not content to sit in idleness and ease with 
folded hands, and helplessly wait for our good Lord to bring the Millen- 
ium, but am humbly trying to do .something to hasten it, and hope to 
see the ushering in of the Golden Age in my day and generation. 

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"And I saw THRONES, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given 
unto them: and I satv the souls of them that were beheaded for the wit- 
ness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped 
the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their 
foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Cuius i \ 
iikm sand TEARS." Revelation, XX; 4. 

As an earnest man who tries to love every honest soul on this terres- 
trial sphere, and as a sincere friend of the Race with whom I have served 
and suffered for a quarter of a century, I say unto you from the profound- 
est depths of my being, I verily believe that all who heed my appeal will 
live to thank me for bringing this information into their lives. 

The Review will soon be able to command plenty of advertising at 
good rates on account of its world-wide circulation, and to any who may 
undertake to buy stock on my recommendation, I give it as my candid con- 
viction that in due time they will receive a fair reward for their invest- 
ment. 

"Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many 
days." Ecclesiastes, XI; 1. 

The more I muse and meditate about this mystic man Mohamed, and 
carefully study his strange letters to me, his brilliant editorials, his won- 
derful writings, and receive the spiritual illumination that shines forth 
from his lines, the more I am inclined to feel that I will live to see the 
literal fulfillment of the prophecy contained in the 31st verse of the 68th 
Psalm: — 

"Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch nut 
her hands unto God." 

Let us work and watch, while we hope and pray, and strive onward 
and upward to the moral altitudes where we can catch the air of the sung 
celestial, and behold the heavenly vision that radiates from the luminous 
pages of Sir Edwin Arnold's "Light of the World": — 



"Peace beginning to be 
Deep as the sleep of the sea 
When the stars their faces glass 
In its blue tranquillity: 

"Hi wns of men upon earth, 

Never once still from their birth, 

To rest as the wild waters rest 

With the colors of heaven on their breast: 

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"Love, which is sunlight of p 
Age by age to increase, 
Till anger and hatreds are dead, 
And sorrow and death shall cease: 

"'Peace ox earth and good-will!' 
Souls that are gentle and still, 
Hear the first music of this 
Far-off, infinite bliss.'" 



"Let us keep step to the Music of the Republic." — Abraham Lincoln. 

"Mine eyes have seen the Glory of the coming of the Lord; 
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; 
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift Sword, 
His Truth is marching on. 

"He has sounded forth the Trumpet that shall never call retreat; 
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; 
Oh, be swift, my Soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! 
Our God is man hing a 

"In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, 
With a Glory in His bosom that Transfigures you and me; 
As He died to make men holy, let us l ■■■■■' '•< make men free, 
Whim ( rOD is WABCB ING ON." 

The Sword of the Lord, which is the Spirit of Truth, will prevail 
when the swords of the world shall be broken and powt rless to rub-. 

"And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you Free." 

St. John, VIII; 32. 

"He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth: 
He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder: 
He burneth the chariot in the fire. 

"Be sum. and know that I am God: 
I will be exalted among the heathen, 
I will be exalted in the earth." Psalms, XLV1 : 9-10. 

"And He shall judge among the Nations, and shall rebuke many peo- 
ple: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears 
into pruninghooks: Nation shall not lift dp swobd against Nation, 
neither shall they Leabn war any more." Isaiah, II; 4. 

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With an abiding faith from earliest childhood, I have devoutly be- 
lieved that 1 would be permitted to live to see Universal Peace firmly 
established, and to thai end I dedicate my life, my service, and my sacred 
honor. 

My "Trumpet Call to Meb of Color," sounds forth on the natal day 
of the Greatest Emancipator the World has ever seen, since the Carpenter 
of Nazareth lifted up his hands in benediction while blessing the multi- 
tude, and passed from mortal sight at Bethany. 

It is my humble effort to pay some small tribute of respect to the 
memory of our First Martyred President, while endeavoring to arouse, 
encourage, and inspire the Colored people of America to do their part 
toward carrying forward in a world-wide manner, the Great Cause for 
which he gave "the last full measure of devotion'' 

Equal Rights and Opportunities for All .Mankind, wherever dispersed 
on the face of the Globe, and Special Privileges t<> \- 

Liberty! with Peace! and Justice! for all Racks ami Religions; 
unto all Nations, Peoples, Kindreds, and Tongues. 

Faithful!)! and sincen ly yours, 

"In the Union of all who Love. 
For the Service of all who Suffj b." 



V,' I!. LARD LIGHT. 



4s:;^ Arlington Avenue, 

Los Angeles, California. 

U. S. A. 



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EDWIN ROBINSON ON LINCOLN 

"Shrewd, hallowed, harassed, and among 
The mysteries that are untold: 

The face we see was never young. 

Nor could it ever have been old. 

"For be. to whom we have applied 

Our shopman's test of age and worth, 

\\';is elemental when he died 

As he was anci( nt at his birth. 

"The saddest among kings of earth, 

Bowed with a galling crown, this man 
Mi i rancor with a cryptic mirth, 

Laconic — and Oia MP! \\." 



FIRST IMMORTAL ORATION 

AT 

GETTYSBURG, NOVEMBER 19, 1863 



I'm i: score wi> sevek vi LBS ago, our Fathers brought forth on this 
continent a new Nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the propo- 
sition that all mkn are created equal. 

Now we are engaged in a great civil war. testing whether that Nation, 
or any Nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 

We are met upon a yreat battle-field of that war. We have come to 
delicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here 
i heir lives that thai Nation might live 

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a 
larger sense, we cannot dedit i cannol consecrate; toe cannot hallow 

i hi* ground. 

The brave men, living and deal, who struggled here have consecrated 
it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little 
note, nor long remember what we say here, bul it can never Corgel what 
they did here. 

ii is for us the living, rather, to he dedicated here to the unfinished 
work which they who fought here have thus far so nohly advanced, it 
is rather for us to be here consecrated to the greal task remaining before 
us: — Thai from these honored dead we take increased consecration to 
that cause for which they gave //"' last full measure of devotion: — 

Thai WE HERE HIGHLY RESOLVE, thai lln.se dead shall not have died 
in vain: Thai- phis Nation i ndeb God, shall have a New Birth of 
Freedom: — And that (Government of the people, by the people, for thh 

PEOPLE, SHALL SOT PERISH FROM I'm: EARTH. 

Abraham Lincoln. 



THE UNCOMMON COMMONER 

By Edmund Vance Cooke, in The Public 

"Bulwark and barbican, grim and tall. 
Keep and turret and moated wall. 
Portico, peristyle, stately hall, 
Palaces, castles, courts and all; 
Lofty minaret, lordly dome, 
Humble yourselves at the childhood home 
Of Lincoln. 

"Made of a few sticks, clumsily cut; 
No window to open, no door to shut ; 
So wretched, indeed, that the name of hut 
Were gilded praise of its poverty, but — 
By the kernel alone we must judge the nut. 
Who could have dreamed in that early hour 
That out of such muck would have sprung the flower — 
A. Lincoln! 

"Reactionaries! who strive, today, 
To hold that men are of differing clay ; 
Oligarchs! Plutocrats! ye who say 
The fathers were wrong, and yea or nay 
May answer a People's Rights today, 
That some are to rule and some obey, 
One plain word shall command your shame; 
Into your faces I fling the name 
Of Lincoln. 

"Whence did he come? From the rearmost rank 
Of the humblest file. Was it some mad prank 
Of God that the mountains were bare and blank 
And the strong tree grew on the lowliest bank? 
Not so! 'Tis the Law. The seed blows wide 
And the flower may bloom as the garden's pride, 
Or spring from the ditch. Nor time, nor place, 
Condition nor Caste, nor Creed nor Race 
May limit manhood. The proof is the case 
Of Lincoln. 

"How was he trained — this untaught sage, 
With nothing but want for his heritage? 
Set to work at the tender age 
Which should have been conning a primer page; 
His whole youth spent for the pitiful wage 
Of axman, boatman, farmer, clerk; 
For learned alone in the school of toorh 
Was Lin( <>i.\. 

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"What was his power? Not kingly caste, 
Nor jingle of gold, howsoever amassed; 
Not Napoleon's force, with the world aghast; 
Nor Tallyrand's cunning, now loose, now fast; 
Not weak persuasion or fierce duress, 
But strong loith the Virtue of Homeliness 
Was Lincoln. 

"Homely in feature. An old style room, 

With its tall, quaint clock and its old, quaint loom, 

Has very much of his home-made air; 

Plain, but a plainness made to wear. 

Homely in character. Void of pretense; 

Homely in homeliest common sense. 

Homely in honesty, homespun stuff 

For every weather, mild or rough. 

Homely in humor, which bubbled up 

Like a forest spring in its earthern cup. 

Homely in justice. He knew the law. 

But often more than the letter he saw; 

And, sheathing tin- sword to its harmless bib. 

Wrote 'Pardon' over the blol of guilt. 

Homely in patience. His door stood wide 

Ami carping and cavil from every side 

Dinned in bis cars, hut he went his way 

And did the strongest that in him lay. 

Homelj in modesty. Never a claim 

Of credit he made, and he shirked no blame, 

Yet firm in his place as the hemisphere 

When principle said to him. 'Si wi> mot m h " 

Homely in tenderness. Motherhood's breast, 

Where the new babe cradles its bead to rest, 

Is not more tender than was his heart; 

y, i brave as a Bayard <n < very part 

Was Li \< m\. 

"O, Uncommon Commoner! may your name 
Forever lead like a living flame! 
I'ns. iiom i i, S< holar! how did you learn 
The wisdom a lifetime cannot earn? 
Unsainted Martyr! higher than saint! 
You were a Max with a man's constraint. 
In the world, of the world, was your lot; 
With it and for it the fight you fought, 
And never till Time is itself forgot 
And the heart of man is a pulseless clot, 
Shall the blood floiv slow when we think the thought 
Or Lincoln." 



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APPENDIX 

Comrades in the Battle for Bread and Peace: 

Grant me this opportunity to return thanks to all those dear friends 
who took the trouble to write me such encouraging letters concerning my 
previous pamphlets, and overwhelmed me with congratulations and kind 
words of hope. 

It. is most gratifying to note the wide range of stations in life from 
whence they came. The White House, Captains of Commerce, and on 
down to the plain private soldiers in the industrial army, who serve with 
me. Senators of the United States; Governors of States; prominent Pas- 
tors; eminent Editors of standard publications; Lawyers and other pro- 
fessional people; staid and substantial business men of affairs; Comrades 
in the fast thinning ranks of the United Confederate Veterans, and the 
Grand Army of the Republic. Could any unknown man ask or expect a 
greater reward from his very first efforts at writing anything for pub- 
lication? 

I was deeply touched by the appreciation and assistance that came 
from my Colored friends. In order to show my gratitude to them, and to 
practice the doctrine I preach, of first helping those who seem to be most 
in need of help, I am making this effort in their especial behalf. 

It appears to me that every person born into the Caucasian Race in 
the twentieth century ought to thank God every hour (if their lives, and 
should at least endeavor to be kind and helpful to all those Races who 
are less fortunate than ours in the present cycle of time. 

We are God's chosen people. The Chief Stewards of His footstool. 
We are not proving altogether true to our holy trust. We are being called 
to an accounting. Unless we rapidly remedy the derelictions of our divine 
duties, the stewardship of the world will pass from us into the hands of 
a more spiritual minded people. Armies, battle-ships, dread-naughts, air- 
ships, and sub-marines never van save us. 

The workers of the world, regardless of Race, Creed, or Color, will 
soon refuse to destroy each other on the battlefield, i\ order that Royalty 
ami Cash:. Privilege \\n Greed may sit Enthboned. At some future time 
I hope to explain my crude ideas of the only means by which our Race 
may hope to claim any right or title to exalted seats in the Coming King- 
dom of Christ <>\ Earth. 

Many of my friends who know something of the tremendous handi- 
caps, antagonistic and conflicting influences, distressing and distracting 
conditions under which I have been compelled to labor, have faith to be- 
lieve that with mere harmonious surroundings I may be able to turn oui 
some writing thai really might be worth reading, and are urging me noi 
to slop, but to go on in the good work. I hope their faith is well founded, 
and trust that in time they may noi be disappointed. 

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A few of my correspondents who happen to know of my vocation in 
life have been generous enough to suggest their willingness to render 
me some financial aid. Candor compels me to say I am sadly in need of 
the same. I ask nothing for my time. If I have any talent it is not for 
sale. But the days are passing swiftly by. I am now in my fifty-third 
year, and have decided to appeal to those who are sympathetic enough to 
believe that I am going to be of some service to mankind, to furnish me 
with the necessary funds to pay printing and postage on my products. 

The people in London are nol paying, never have paid, nor ever prom- 
ise! to pay me anything for what I am trying to do for them. I take it, 
thai like myself. Editor Mohamed is striving to do his part toward the 
evangelization of the eartb "without money and without price." 

I put no charge upon this tractate, bul will thankfully accept any- 
thing anyone wishes to give me toe it. I will hold it in print until my 
friend orld over have time to judge of its merits, or lack of merit. 

1 am prepared to furnish anj number of copies at whatever value fair 
minded people place upon them. Letters containing helpful suggestions. 
constructive criticism, or monetary encouragement would be most grate- 
fully received, and all acknowledged if possible. 

[f my "Trumpet Call to Men "f Color" proves to lie something of a 
ess, as soon as 1 can find rest, and strength, and linie, [ hope to follow 
it with a "Bugle Call to White Folks." I should like to make this next 
intended booklel a Souvenir of Easter, and feebly attempt to have it reflect 
some of the Resurrection Glory, bul the dawning of the morning of that 
sad sweet day is near at hand, and I imisi work v-r\ slowly, cautiously, 
and carefully on these eternal principles. Tin: SPIRIT is WILLING AND 
i \eii;. hut the flesh is weak indeed. 

()m: Father only knows when the clario of my "Bugle Call" 

may ring out. As our just Quaker friends mighl express it, I will under- 
take to compose my next message "when the Spirit moves me.'" In it 
I hope to present some reasons why 1 feel thai a World Parliament of 
Religions should he held at our Panama-Pacific Exposition, and also a 
Globe Conference of Fraternal Orders, in this latter connection I trust 
I might he aide to say something that may prove profoundly interesting 
to the brethren in the Fraternity of which 1 have the honor to lie a 
kindergarten member. 

"I ah loath to (i.osi:." Willi the continuation of the cheering inspir- 
ation,, comforting sympathy, and substantial support of all good and 
true Comrades in the Grand Army of Right, I pray thai ere long I will 
be permitted to take my "Light"' from under a bushel, and set it on a 
candlestick, where it may shine brightly before men: and ever yet 
brighter, eves into the perfect day. 

Yours for Service in the Brotherhood of Humanity, 

THE AUTHOR. 

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"Move my arm-chair, faithful Pompey, 

In the sunshine bright and strong, 
For this world is fading, Pompey — 

Massa won't be with you long; 
And I fain would hear the south wind 

Bring once more the sound to me 
Of the wavelets softly breaking 

On the Shores of Tennessee. 

"Mournful though the ripples murmur 

As they still the story tell, 
How no vessels float the banner 

That I've loved so long and well; 
I shall listen to their music, 

Dreaming that again I see 
Stabs and Stripes on sloop and shallop 

Sailing up the Tennessee. 

"And, Pompey, while old Massa's waiting 

For death's last despatch to come, 
If that exiled starry banner 

Should come proudly sailing home, 
You shall greet it, slave no longer; 

Voice and hand shall both be free 
To shout and point to Union colors, 

On the ivaves of Tennessee. 
* * * * * 
"Ha! above the foliage yonder, 

Something flutters wild and free! 
'Massa! Massa! Hallelujah! 

The flag's come back to Tennessee !' 

"Pompey, hold me on your shoulder, 

Help me stand on foot once more, 
That I may salute the colors 

As they pass my cabin door. 
Here's the paper signed that frees you, — 

Give a freeman's shout with me! 
'God and Union!' be our watchword 

Evermore in Tennessee! 
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"When the flag went down the river 

Man and master both were free, 
While the ring-dove's note was mingled 

With the rippling Tennessee." 

ETHEL LYNN BEERS. 




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